Amazon Web Services Solutions Architect interview experience

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New York, NYPosted Mar 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process was straightforward in structure, and it mostly lived in the virtual world until a final loop stage.

After an initial recruiter call, I moved into workplace simulation and then a take-home assessment. There wasn’t any leetcode-style coding pressure; instead, the focus was on how I connected my experience to Amazon’s leadership principles and how I explained my thinking.

From there, I had the hiring-manager interaction and then the loop itself. The loop was described to me as the final stage with multiple interviews, each about an hour, and that matched what it felt like on the calendar—separate conversations with different interviewers rather than one long session. The topics were a mix of

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